The petition smashed the 100,000 signature target needed for it to be considered by Parliament in just three days with over 147,000 signatures.

But weeks later the 27-year-old didn't even bother finishing to read the email explaining to him the issue wouldn't actually be debated.

Jamie never imagined his petition would reach parliament

And amazingly, six months after the idea was first spawned, Jamie received a second message confirming the petition committee had decided to reconsider the matter.

Today Paul Skully, Member of Parliament for Sutton, Cheam & Worcester Park, supported the aims of the petition as it was debated in Westminster Hall, saying that there are "far too many young people who are unable to buy a house".

The debate took place over an hour and a half and he argued that the paying of rent on a regular monthly basis - in regards to Mr Pogson who has forked out £70,000 in rent over time - is a "better guide to credit worthy-ness".

Mr Skully said: "That £70,000 could be building up equity and if he's got a good record in one it would be hoped that with all the other checks that a bank needs to do, he'd be good for credit in a mortgage as well."

Jamie headed to London to hear the debate

He went on to say: "The government, in my eyes, should aim to take first time buyers and some downsizers purchasing smaller properties, out of the tax entirely and reduce the burden on family homes and fix anomalies of those around shared ownership properties."

A total of 957 people in the South West Devon constituency signed a petition that argued for ‘paying rent on time to be recognized as evidence that mortgage repayments can be met’.

This worked out at one person in every 94 in MP Gary Streeter’s seat - the highest share in the country.

In an initial response the Government said: “Lenders must consider a range of factors when assessing a mortgage application.

“Meeting rental payments is not sufficient in itself to demonstrate affordability over the lifetime of the loan.”

The petition has nearly 150,000 signatures

But today Conservative MP for Clwyd West David Jones said he strongly supports the idea that mortgage companies should be taking note of those who pay their rent on time and regularly for long periods of time.

He said: "Of course, it is the case that a contract for paying rent is not a contract for credit [...] nevertheless a strong history of making rental payments on time is a strong indication that the individual in question is capable of adhering to a discipline of making payments of sums due at times due.

"And therefore should be of some interest I would have thought to mortgage lenders and I therefore strongly support the proposition that credit reference agencies should be recording and taking into account rental payments."

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The MP said that this should represent a history of dependability which he feels would "open up other benefits" such as not having the necessary requirement of pre-payment metres and would make consumer credit easier.

Luke Pollard stood up for the Plympton resident and said: "It's good to see that angry Janners who want to change the world can get out and, as he describes in the Plymouth Herald, 'have a rant one morning' and potentially change our housing system.

He suggested that it was important that the Government looked at the housing crisis in not just in Plymouth but across the country.

But he noted that in Plymouth we have double the amount of people living within the private rental sector than the national average at 32 per cent.

Luke Pollard debated mortgages in parliament today

Mr Pollard added that there needs to be more affordable housing to rent and buy and to create "more of a market for the part-by-part let to help those people on low incomes secure a stake in a property that they can build up over time and then "use as collateral to move up the housing ladder".

He encouraged a "gentle nudge" from the minister to credit reference agencies to consider "innovative solutions" to the financial issues many millennials are facing.

Kirsty Blackman, a Scottish National Party politician, stated that in a bid to prove credit worthy-ness she has known people to have to take out a credit card simply to build up a credit score so that they can prove to mortgage loaners that they are worthy of having a mortgage in the future.

She said: "I think there are ways that this could be done better. There are positive moves that could be made by the Government around credit agencies and the way these things are applied in order for me people to get access to the finance that they need and can afford rather than finance that is out of their reach."

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Jamie, who was working as a roofer but has just started a job in sales, said he was "shocked" when he read the second email.

"It got pushed aside before but now it looks like it is being taken seriously," previously said Jamie, who lives in Plympton.

Jamie, who is a self-confessed "ordinary guy", has never been to Parliament before, and says it will be a "good experience" for him.

"I am shocked to be honest," he continued. "It was only a little rant I was having first thing in the morning on the way to work.

"I was writing the petition like I would a text message, there was no grammar or anything, but it took off over night."

He added: "A lot of things I wanted to happen are happening anyway now, with companies like Experia creating a system for a landlord to sign up to.

"However not a lot of people know about it, so it needs to be pushed."